"I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter."

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Source : Jackson Pearce (2011). “Sisters Red”, p.154, Hachette UK

Jackson Pearce

#Waiting Quotes #Hunters Quotes #Capable Quotes

“In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.”
“Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then â€” and this is the important bit â€” do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.”
“When people live in the full light of an open society, paying their taxes, abiding by the rules, that makes not only our country safer and more secure because people are not relegated to living in the shadows and not creating underground economies, it also is better for wages because the fact that people are working on the books in the open means that there's greater demand for labor and you don't have this submarket.”
“Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere?”
“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”

Source : The Sane Society (1955) ch. 9
“I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.”
“The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.”
“When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.”

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